He was floating  in the middle of a giant web, surrounded by darkness. The web was made of millions of nodes with wires connecting all of them. The nodes looked like small, red stars far from far away. The wires more like thin multi-colored threads, made of just light. It had the size of a small universe and well inside you could almost feel the information vibrate around you. He could see data flowing from node to node and from groups of nodes to other groups. Thoughts and ideas and emotions were transferred with the speed of light, like a million small springs and rivers. Each of the connected nodes – a human mind. What he saw was the total sum of all human minds, forming the most powerful and intelligent life form ever.  In a way, he was a “neural hacker”. He had found a way to plug into the core hubs and he had an overview  of this enormous consciousness. The image – or rather the mental sensation – of this giant mind was sent into his own brain through a thousand microscopic electrodes. The neural interface was a modified version of the standard interface that everyone was equipped with. Theoretically, he could modify every single transmission going through the hubs, which would affect the behaviour of The Organism as a whole. If he wanted, he could turn up the arousal level in node group 4b669 and instantly create fear, panic or euphoria. For now, he was happy to just watch the flood of information going through his brain. What he couldn’t do was to affect the physical world around him. For that, he would need access to the interfaces between the mind of The Organism and the world outside. Alternatively, he would need to go out there himself, but he knew he was too weak for that.

The Organism was supported by an AI controlled industrial machinery which ensured life support for all the countless minds connected. The industrial machine supplied it with water, crop products, synthecical protein and other nutritients. It also took care of reparation of the hardware that occasionally broke down. No one was living outside anymore. Life inside The Organism was too satisfying, simply. Reality could no longer compete, just like it had once been portrayed in the old flick “The Matrix”. The difference was that no one was forced to be part of it. But who would like not to? The notion that reality is just what you can experience with your senses, was now more true than ever.

He didn’t feel like altering anything. First, he had to learn more about it’s inner workings. He was going with great speed from one part of the consciousness to another. Some node groups were interesting, when they started to form completely new ideas randomly. Wonderful music, visual art, mathemical formulas and other more abstract thoughts were often the most interesting to watch. It had a certain harmony to it, he noticed. Like waves that came and went away. Sinus waves, Mandelbrot fractals, Nova fractals, more complicated mathematical patterns and just pure randomness was blending into creations that a single human mind could never have imagined possible.